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Mashing Up Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 with 9 Comments »

Yahoo Pipes lets you mashup your RSS feeds into one. That can come in handy if you want to display the latest from a bunch of blogs on your own site. This is how you do it, Pipe style.

Danger Will Robinson! ~Status Bar Alerts~
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 with 12 Comments »

Ever wondered how some web pages change the text down in the status bar? Probably only if you’re running Internet Explorer. Nevertheless, it’s a cool little thing, so Brian will tell you how to do it in your own web projects.

Custom Reading Containers
Sunday, January 21st, 2007 with 11 Comments »

For those who have been following Devlounge for a while, you'll know that I wrote a script called Custom Reading Width. Custom Reading Width allowed users of a particular site to adjust a container's width. Soon after publishing the article, it was suggested to me that I write something similar that allows a [...]

Custom Reading Width Beta
Monday, November 6th, 2006 with 27 Comments »

Custom Reading Width Beta is specifically geared towards those that have liquid, or full-width layouts. Jakob Nielson already tells us to use a liquid layout, but users at higher resolutions suffer when it comes to reading text on screen. Custom Reading Width, when implemented on a site, allows a user to select the [...]

Inspiration Behind “Custom Reading Width Beta”
Monday, November 6th, 2006 with 2 Comments »

"Custom Reading Width Beta" allows users of a particular website to adjust a reading container in order to suit their preferences. In essence, the user can choose the "reading width" of the layout, and also choose whether the behavior of the website is fixed or fluid.
My inspiration behind writing the script Custom Reading Width [...]

Ajax on Rails - Prototype vs JQuery
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 with 12 Comments »

When you unpack your shiny new version of Rails and generate your first Ajax link, you are using the Prototype library. It’s beautiful to use. It adds many Rails-like constructs into the JavaScript language, e.g. the each method to iterate a closure over an array. Sexy stuff. But, how do you create a hover effect without using prototype?

An Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Friday, June 16th, 2006 with No Comments »

A guide to understanding the basic of Ruby on Rails.

The Benefits of Mint
Sunday, April 9th, 2006 with 1 Comment »

From Awstats, to a jscript inspired stats package that takes advantage of an open plugin API to harness a whole group of new powers, we look at why Mint has the competition melted.

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